Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...renewed inter-American solidarity in the Johnson presidency. Dedicating a statue of Abraham Lincoln, a $150,000 gift from the American people, Johnson enunciated eight principles of cooperation and respect for hemisphere relations and offered to take part in a Latino summit conference to revivify the Alliance for Progress...
...were achieved largely with the help of defecting white Democrats incensed at the Administration's support of civil rights. Nor were Republican officials made any happier last week by a penetrating analysis of its dilemma in Dixie prepared by two liberal groups, the nationally organized Republicans for Progress and the Yale-based Republican Advance. Their report, a product of a state-by-state survey, warned that G.O.P. organizations in Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina are "lily-white," and described party support for segregationist candidates as "sheer madness...
...units of the Big Red One, the Royal Australian Regiment and New Zealand Artillery Battalion counted a total of 59 enemy killed, 22 captured, and a 900-sq.-mi. area cleared of Viet Cong-at least for the time being. That left two major sweeps still in progress: Operation Nevada, a search-and-destroy mission by several U.S. Marine battalions in the Cape Batagan Peninsula, which has so far killed 42 Viet Cong, and Operation Fillmore, a sweep through Phu Yen province by the 101st Airborne Division, whose troopers have killed 149 of the enemy in the past 20 days...
...could take away the years of lightning with a single day of drums," says Narrator Gregory Peck, as he eulogizes the authentic youth, vigor and intelligence of the Kennedy attack on half a dozen major issues. The Peace Corps, the Alliance for Progress, the "conquest of space," civil rights, peace and freedom are the projects ticked off-sometimes in conventional shots of happy peasants and hopeful Negroes, more often in briskly edited footage of Kennedy's trips abroad. The President's motorcade in Mexico City is barely visible through a blizzard of red, white and blue confetti...
...tone of his research is best expressed in the image of a befeathered savage dancer wearing sneakers. Without straining for irony, Gaisseau notes inching progress in New Guinea, where one happy warrior of the cannibalistic Kuku-Kuku tribe is flown away to face murder charges; his kinsmen on the ground wear human hands as talismans, smoke the bodies of their honored dead and lug them around like dolls...